A series which offered half-hour introductions to US broadcasts of thirteen BBC plays grouped under the title Classic Theatre-the Humanities in Drama. The previews include scholar’s comments and interviews...

aka: The Sonnets - Shakespeare’s Moods of Love

Director

David Wickes

Producer

Richard Dunn

A film shot on location in and around Stratford-upon-Avon; concerns ten Shakespearian sonnets, spoken off-screen, which have a single dramatic theme: a bond between an ageing poet, his mistress and a young...

Television documentary series tracing the history and progress of Western civilisation. Discussing the theme of progress and communication, Kenneth Clark speaks of the Reformation, the Germany of Dürer and...

Last of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III). Originally a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Peter Hall and John...

Radio programme. An account of the Royal Shakespeare’s Company production of Richard II as part of Peter Hall’s seven-play history cycle The Wars of the Roses. Members of the Company speak of their work...

Live sound recording of Peter Hall, Clifford Williams and John Barton’s 1964 production of Henry IV Part 1 for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Eric Porter in the title role and Hugh Griffith as Falstaff.